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I just got the soundtrack to the movie Novocaine and it steadily climbs my list of favorites everytime I listen to it. I think Steve Bartek did an excellent job of adapting Elfman’s themes. Bartek’s compositions sound similar to Elfman’s, but there are noticable differences (at times during some of the action cues, the music somewhat resembles my other favorite composer Carter Burwell).
I am developing a television series and Elfman is my one and only choice to do the theme. But now I am 100% sure Bartek is the right man to compose the music for the rest of the series.
I was just curious of what other people think of this album.
It seems that I am the only one who has it.
In that case, I recommend it to all of you.
I don’t have it. I wasn’t too fond of the score. I loved Elfman’s main theme, though.
I have it, and I quite like it as well. Wish I’d seen the movie.
I have never seen it either. Which is odd because Steve Martin is my favorite actor, I love dark comedies and movies about dentists.
lol. Same here!
Have you ever read any of Steve Martin’s writing? I have a collection of four plays by him called (I think) _Picasso at the Lapin Agile and other plays_ or something like that. A couple of the plays in there are about the funniest things I’ve ever read in my life. I highly recommend it to you…and every other Elfman fan, for that matter, I’m quite sure you’d all love it.
Actually, I saw this movie. It was pretty cool. It was some kind of new-wave Hitchcock/Cronenberg hybrid of a movie. Helena Bonham Carter played one messed-up broad in it! It was so strange to see Steve Martin in it … although he was great … as usual… With, like, the first 3 chords, you could tell it was an Elfman score … sort of in the vein of FREEWAY and DEAD PRESIDENTS…
It’s definitely Elfman in his Indie-Film Mode … not to say that he’s that categorized in his musical offerings … but, naturally, he tries to do more interesting and experimental things in Indie Films, and they let him get away with it … unlike, say the more traditional Wagnerian “BATMAN” stuff which has to be awe-inspiring yet appeal to the Happy Meal crowd… I like him MORE in Indie-Mode personally!!! He’s the Dr. Frankenstein of film music-experimentation!!! I didn’t even know it had a CD … I gotta grab it! I recommend the movie too … just for a look, anyway …
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